Hello Mogpies! We have been discussing AI a lot these days. With the advances that OpenAI have given us many people are asking how can we tell if this is a robot or a human. While it is a current dilemma that we are having, this actually goes back about 70 years. In the 1950s Alan Turing developed a test to determine if a human is communicating with a robot or a human. This test is lovingly named the Turing test. The interviewer asks a series of questions to the participant to try and trick them into revealing if they are a robot or not. Now one of the big issues with this test is that it has been beaten and is considered outdated by many. So with the many advances in AI we need to develop more/better tests to stay ahead of its growth. And there are a few things that we can try to test for, such as empathy, intelligence, or self-awareness. These are some of the traits that we as humans have determined are not possible for robots to replicate yet. But that may change in the future...in fact that is what scientists are trying to accomplish. So lets talk about it!

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